(ANSA) – SAINT-MARTIN-LA-PORTE (FRANCE), 28 APR – Today in Saint-Martin-la-Porte in France the excavation of the first 10.5 km of the Turin-Lyon base tunnel was completed. In the late morning, with a ceremony in the presence of Hubert Du Mesnil and Mario Virano, respectively president and general manager of Telt, the last rock wall connecting the 9 kilometers excavated by the cutter and the last kilometer and a half made with the traditional method. This was the most complex part, in one of the most delicate points of the mountain between France and Italy due to the presence of a long carboniferous fault.
It is, underlined the top management of Telt, the company in charge of building and managing the new infrastructure, of the second construction site of the final works of the work which is concluded “in compliance with the times and costs”, after the one for the construction of the portal. entrance to Saint-Julien-Montdenis completed in autumn 2021. At the same time, the works assigned in July of last year to complete the French section of the tunnel where the trains will pass have already begun. The work currently engages over 1,000 people in the 10 construction sites open between Italy and France.
“Today is a day of great satisfaction for us – said Virano – this last kilometer and a half of work has allowed us to acquire all the information to be put in the specifications so that the companies that have to excavate the twin tunnel at 50 meters of distance (the second tube of the tunnel, ed.) no longer have the discovery of critical issues but already know what they will find and what they will have to do “.
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Source: Ansa
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